A shadow price is a monetary value assigned to currently unknowable or difficult-to-calculate costs. The origin of these costs is typically due to an externalization of costs or an unwillingness to recalculate a system to account for marginal production. For example, consider a firm that already has a factory full of equipment and staff. They might estimate the shadow price for a few more units of production as simply the cost of the overtime. In this manner some goods and services have near zero shadow prices, for example information goods.

Less formally, a shadow price can be thought of as the cost of decisions made at the margin without consideration for the total cost.

In a business application, a shadow price is the maximum price that management is willing to pay for an extra unit of a given limited resource.[1] For example, if a production line is already operating at its maximum 40-hour limit, the shadow price would be the maximum price the manager would be willing to pay for operating it for an additional hour, based on the benefits he would get from this change.

More formally, the shadow price is the value of the Lagrange multiplier at the optimal solution, which means that it is the infinitesimal change in the objective function arising from an infinitesimal change in the constraint. This follows from the fact that at the optimal solution the gradient of the objective function is a linear combination of the constraint function gradients with the weights equal to the Lagrange multipliers. Each constraint in an optimization problem has a shadow price or dual variable.

Shadow price on a balance sheet

In advance of adequate regulation or market pricing for some commodity items conservative organizations will place on their balance sheets a value they believe to be an accurate reflection of the value of those items to their operations. This is common for companies with a large carbon footprint or water footprint. As an example Microsoft has placed a $27/ton price on its carbon emissions which is then billed to the P&L of its individual business units and used to fund the company's renewable energy and efficiency programs.[2][3]

This gives us a clear interpretation of the Lagrange multiplier in the context of consumer maximization. If the consumer is given an extra dollar (the budget constraint is relaxed) at the optimal consumption level where the marginal utility per dollar for each good is equal to λ∗{\displaystyle \,\!\lambda ^{*}} as above, then the change in maximal utility per dollar of additional income will be equal to λ∗{\displaystyle \,\!\lambda ^{*}} since at the optimum the consumer gets the same amount of marginal utility per dollar from spending his additional income on either good.

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This guide is for: Capture and proposal managers who are:
1) tracking how many hours proposal team members (including consultants) charge to the pursuit so they can gauge the proposal resources' productivity, and measure performance;
2) developing a proposal budget to get the right amount of money and personnel allocated by their management; it is useful when seeking better support from the management to prevent burnout and avoid being set up for failure due to lack of resources.
Proposal consultants bidding on a specific job, trying to develop a realistic estimate that's attractive to both the customer and the consultants.
Proposal writers planning the length of time it would take to develop the final product.
Business owners and department heads planning budgets for the business development efforts and making educated bid-no-bid decisions, to determine whether they want to spend their valuable resources to prepare a proposal (and do it right, so that they are playing to win) - or spend the money elsewhere.
This guide is what OST Global Solutions uses internally to estimate our efforts and create consulting proposals to our customers. It came from years of collecting best practices and metrics, and vetting this information by the proposal field's leading professionals to ensure accuracy.
You will get immediate ROI on the very first pursuit where you use this guide, as you will be able to:
Quickly calculate proposal needs;
Reduce stress through more realistic resources and schedule;
Eliminate waste of resources through more careful budget tracking;
Make better use of your limited resources by deciding to bid (or not) on different proposals;
And, most importantly, resource your proposals to win.